Google, Yahoo and Microsoft team up for ... freedom of speech

The Wall Street Journal yesterday announced the unexpected initiative of three “giants of good”: Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, together with organizations for the protection of human rights and public interests, agreed to create a Global Network Initiative - an organization that will monitor the activities of companies in countries with limited freedom of speech and self-expression.

In the past, all three companies were criticized for “respecting profit more than human rights and dignity” in general, and in particular, of course, regarding China’s intimate issue. The official site has a complete list of members of the organization.

Wall Street Journal:

With the new principles that were formulated more than two years ago, technological titans promise to protect the personal information of their users, regardless of how the business is going and interpret government requests for the disclosure of personal information in accordance with its rules.

via TechCrunch